Relative humour: Invoking Einstein to prove that time moves five times slower in Goa and 7.5 times slower during a summertime power cut!
As the physicist famously proved, clocks and calendars are not to be trusted
My aunt N and uncle S are generous contributors to the archive of family anecdotes. Their relationship with time, among other things, is a source of endless amusement to us all. Their disdain for externally imposed schedules is so pronounced that they’ve missed flights – and even overstayed foreign visits – on account of miscalculations. Not for them the quotidian comforts of calendars and clocks. Moods and whims govern these truly iconoclastic folks. Consider the time they visited a theatre all of 500 metres away from their home to watch the ‘historical’ Jodhaa Akbar (2008). “How was it?” we asked feebly. “It was okay,” S answered, unimpressed. “Just a little long.” N sniggered at her husband’s verdict. “You don’t agree?” we prodded. “No. It’s just that we reached the theatre after the interval,” she revealed.
